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Research:
The formation of the IEQ in 1994 initiated university commitment to
environmental programs. Within the College of Science &
Mathematics, there are approximately 30 faculty in the
departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Geological
Sciences, the Institute for Environmental Quality and the Center
for Ground Water Management. They employ an environmental focus
in both research and teaching. Active extramurally funded
research by environmental faculty contributes to IEQ's national
reputation as a specialist in contaminant effect, fate and
treatment. Three key areas of research include:
Effects
Ecotoxicology, wildlife toxicology, water quality,
and ecological interactions.
Fate and Transport
Surface and ground water transport detection of contaminants (air, surface/ground
water, soil, sediments, sludge/wastes) using chemical, physical, and
biological methods of detection.
Treatment
Chemical treatment of hazardous wastes and ground water remediation.
Environmental Faculty Research Specialties
Extramurally funded programs include:
- Aquatic toxicology - Burton
- Wildlife toxicology - Grasman
- Natural product toxins - Carmichael
- Molecular and cellular biomarkers
and control processes - Wheatly, Goldstein, Krane
- Wetland restoration - Amon
- Aquaticstressor effects on
ecological systems - Wood
- Groundwater contaminant transport
and detection - Ritzi
- Hydrogeochemistryof wetlands
- Cheng
- Groundwater contamination and
environmental geophysics - Wolfe
- Environmental chemistry - McGowin
- Ground water chemistry and
contaminant fate/transport/bioremediation - Agrawal
- Environmental physics - Hauser
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